Protest Called to Burn Student Loan Bills

Submitted by Libby A. Nelson on September 13, 2012 - 3:00am

Last fall, Occupy Student Debt, an activist group, called on students[1] to stop paying their student loan bills as a form of protest. Now another group has called for burning those bills[2] on Sept. 22, promising a 20-foot high "ceremonial fire" in Hollywood. Hard Block, a group that supports the goals of the Occupy movement and describes itself as a "developer and enabler of the burgeoning protest culture," has organized the event and says that an "elected official" will dump the ashes of the student loan bills on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.

It's unclear how successful the protest will be: Occupy Student Debt promised that students would stop repaying their bills if 1 million students signed on. So far, just over 4,000[3] have.